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Sepulchre

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Herbert's writing is the kind that, if coupled with constant scares or gunfights, could serve passably to move the plot along and generate some fun for us all, but it, and his characterization, is totally incapable of sustaining the novel alone.

Not Me This Time: While Dieter Stuhr initially appears to have been tortured and killed just for the fun of it by some of Kline's warped followers, the real culprit is IRA hitman Danny Shay, to find Halloran. Haunted, the story of a sceptical paranormal investigator taunted by malicious ghosts, began life as a screenplay for the BBC, though this was not the screenplay used in the eventual film version. I never thought I would like any James Herbert books, as I had heard some horror stories - quite literally! For a long while, the book reads like a crime thriller with added details of ancient eastern and Sumerian culture (which eventually connect up with the present tale) similar to some of the crime thriller novels of Shaun Hutson.Interred in the Majdanek concentration camp for (reluctantly) bringing food to the Polish resistance, starvation drove him to eat the flesh of corpses. In the Hood: During untoward prolonging of his periodical skin shedding, Kline, over his cracked, flaking body, wears a hooded cloak. Meanwhile, Shield operative Dieter Stuhr is found murdered, the motive of Neath’s prospective invaders remains unclear, and the true nature of Kline’s powers heralds revelation to shake Halloran to the core. With the threat level against Klein’s life rising, Halloran knows that the most secure place for the strange psychic to be right now is within the huge stone walls of ‘Neath’.

The final quarter of the novel is where Herbert really gets stuck in with the unashamed injection of horror into the tale. Blob Monster: A huge mound of tentacular flesh, formed from pure, concentrated malice, appears in Kline’s lake to drag in several visiting IRA hitmen. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Unstoppable Rage: On finding a naked Monk flogging Cora, to their mutual enjoyment, Halloran goes absolutely mental. Until it does, we spend chapter after chapter (after chapter) receiving clues about Kline's evil nature that could only be said to be subtlety building to a devastating reveal if you've not only not read a horror novel before but likely have never read a novel and maybe are not fluent, or even conversant, in the English language.

I have read lots of ancient Egyptian horror, Cabala horror, Babylonian horror, even Aztec horror, but this was my first Sumerian horror story. Attention to character, riveting suspense, and a satisfyingly chilling conclusion show Herbert once again to be a master of the genre. She is forced to have sex with the "hero" to distract him, then the next day when she wants nothing to do with him he forces himself on her and rapes her (although he says it's fine because she ended up enjoying it)! This one on the whole was slow tediius and boring and little more untill you got to chapter 39 then going through the motions! Cora is also mildly into BDSM which apparently gives other characters the right to use and abuse her.

Bodyguard Liam Halloran will combat men who thrive on physical corruptions; he will find love of a perverse nature; he will confront his soul's own darkness. That aside, this older, more literary me was also appalled at the clumsy simplicity of the novel's prose.

James Herbert has a gift of pulling you in to the stories he creates so you can't put them down -at least I can't. His client is a "mystic" who is at the center of the long success of a major multinational corporation. Violence, madness, corruption and debauchery lie at the heart of the mystery and the main character Halloran seems the only man who can get to the bottom of it all and try to save the day. The cabin burned to the ground around 1990 but my friend, now an adult, has risen from the ashes and every summer I get to spend a few days in the new cabin reminiscing and enjoying the great outdoors--not to mention the granite wonders of Yosemite Valley. James Herbert's Sepulchre is a good effort at combining the action/adventure/thriller with paranormal horror.

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